Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "HMS Neptune - Guide 294 (NB)" video.

@postron5649 it's more of British Admirals fighting the last war. Rather than the next one.
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The people of the UK have always preferred their National Health Service to the Royal Navy.
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@postron5649 except that the threat turned out to be Soviet Subs. The surface force was never really much to worry about.
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@genericpersonx333 True..... Just saying that spending and designing for a big surface action Cruiser in 1945 with the Germans threat gone would have been a misstep. The Soviets did build as you said some big ones. But, the sub force did 90% of the Work really.
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@MarcusAgrippa390 General Tojo had leadership of the government. That might be some of the bias.
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@lucidnonsense942 changing the barrel length doesn't change the action however. And aren't the gun partitioned in the turret?
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@kemarisite Okay... Thought They were more like the Iowa main Turrets. 🙆🏽‍♂️
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@waverleyjournalise5757 we're not talking about using a different gun. We're talking about the Centerline offset.
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Actually the money would have been spent better on what the actual threat was. Anti-submarine Warfare. Soviet surface forces was not the worry. It was their submarines. It's rather pointless to keep something like Warspite.
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@Lancasterlaw1175 they had no Logistics. They had no bases. Their surface ships rarely went in to the Atlantic or the Med. They were not that much a blue water threat then or now.
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@kevintemple245 Shells are cheaper than Torpedoes. And reloadable...
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@k3D4rsi554maq nope....🙄
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@grantlee5737 ship configurations will vary. But most of the space forward is dedicated to things like storage and the anchor chain room. On the older battleships you would have submerged torpedo tubes. You generally would not put berthing spaces that far forward.
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